Chrispak_'s profile picture. Academic specialising in science fiction, the environmental humanities, human-animal studies and the digital humanities, based at Swansea University.

Chris Pak

@Chrispak_

Academic specialising in science fiction, the environmental humanities, human-animal studies and the digital humanities, based at Swansea University.

2-year Early Modern Studies Postdoc at Swansea's become available: swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…


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Featuring an invited article by @Chrispak_ plus brilliant articles by @OJCade, @FilonenkoSofia, Kirsten Hunt, Julia E. Kiernan, and @Momentanium


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Time to start doing things, Birkbeck supporters! Please RT widely! change.org/p/no-job-cuts-…


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Heard of Cli-Fi? That's what I took on for the latest @cbcradio #tech and I have some #book recommendations for your fall and 🎁 lists! I spoke with climate fiction experts about what the genre brings to the work of mitigating and adapting to climate change Here we go 1/6

It’s like science fiction, except it takes readers into imagined worlds drastically impacted by climate change and populations trying somewhat far-out tech to save themselves. CBC’s @manjaselva looks at the appeal of #clifi.



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Still some spaces on this course if you're interested in enrolling

Discover the history of science fiction in TV, film and literature with the curator of the Science Museum London's new exhibition "Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination", Dr Glyn Morgan. All welcome, enrolling now at imperial.ac.uk/evening-classe…



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Don’t know who this guy is, but he makes me want to see the Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination exhibition opening TOMORROW @sciencemuseum 😉

The Science Museum takes inspiration from science fiction films in new exhibition - Voyage to the Edge of Imagination The exhibition encourages visitors to journey through the cosmos to explore visions of the future through the science of today @sciencemuseum #sciencefiction



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Contents include an expansive foreword by Stephen Baxter, @arrroberts on Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy, @Chrispak_ on Kim Stanley Robinson, Jonathan Rayner on Japanese WW2 alternate history, @SciFiBaker on @ian_sales Apollo Quartet, @mariettarosetta on @lavietidhar ... (1/2)


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I'm happy to announce that AntConc 4.1.0 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux is now released. It includes a new *online* corpus repository, a new wordcloud tool, and various tweaks to improve the user experience. You can get it as a free download here: laurenceanthony.net/software/antco…

antlabjp's tweet image. I'm happy to announce that AntConc 4.1.0 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux is now released. It includes a new *online* corpus repository, a new wordcloud tool, and various tweaks to improve the user experience. You can get it as a free download here: laurenceanthony.net/software/antco…
antlabjp's tweet image. I'm happy to announce that AntConc 4.1.0 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux is now released. It includes a new *online* corpus repository, a new wordcloud tool, and various tweaks to improve the user experience. You can get it as a free download here: laurenceanthony.net/software/antco…

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100 days to launch.... 🚀

In a museum (not so) far, far away… Tickets are now on sale for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure! Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination is an immersive, genre-defying exhibition opening in 2022. Book now to get 15% off (limited availability) bit.ly/31k5BuM



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Delighted to be joining @foundation_sf with my good colleague @Chrispak_ (& @JonathanThornt2). Thanks Paul March-Russell and @maureenkspeller for thinking of me, it's an honour to be part of this crucial node in the UK SF network. #sciencefiction #journal sf-foundation.org/fresh-about?fb…


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Our programme is here! We've released the first draft of our programme, to give you an idea of all the amazing papers and workshops our conference will feature! Find it here: bit.ly/3O0JcWV Deadline for Early Bird Registration THIS SUNDAY 17/04. bit.ly/3NWIfPv


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These are terrific scholarships...work with great people like @DrYanWu @Allainak @DrRhys @leightonevans @william_merrin @RydzewskaJoanna @elainprice @Chrispak_ @Mecavityjones @herman_anamaria + our non Tweeting colleagues ! Great folks to help you on your academic journey 😉

Are you interested in doing a PhD at a top department ? Check out these fully loaded scholarship opportunities - please contact Media and Comms staff members for an informal chat... swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…



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How has science fiction engaged with pandemics? From Mary Shelley to @SarahPinsker, I look at a range of plagues as metaphor, as thought experiment, as narrative device, and suggest how such texts might be helpful in the way we think out disease, and societies.

I have a new publication. My article "New ways: the pandemics of science fiction" appears in a special issue of @royalsociety journal Interface Focus as part of an #openaccess special issue on "COVID-19: science, history, culture and imagination": royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…



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Paperback copies of my @BloomsburyLit book, The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel, have arrived🤩! I'd like to give some copies to PhD students/precarious ECAs who work in the field. If it's of interest DM me? (UK-based folks only, sorry, for postage reason)

tedilta's tweet image. Paperback copies of my @BloomsburyLit book, The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel, have arrived🤩! 

I'd like to give some copies to PhD students/precarious ECAs who work in the field. If it's of interest DM me? (UK-based folks only, sorry, for postage reason)

My book, The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel (@BloomsburyLit), is now available in paperback for under £30! bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporar…

tedilta's tweet image. My book, The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel (@BloomsburyLit), is now available in paperback for under £30! 
bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporar…


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Wall-E from War of the Worlds, sci-fi has long-explored the idea of making other spaces suitable for human living. How does this inform the way we think about environmental issues? Book a FREE ticket to join sci-fi expert @ChrisPak_ to explore this idea: bsa.sc/Sci-fi-changin…

BritishSciFest's tweet image. Wall-E from War of the Worlds, sci-fi has long-explored the idea of making other spaces suitable for human living. How does this inform the way we think about environmental issues? Book a FREE ticket to join sci-fi expert @ChrisPak_ to explore this idea: bsa.sc/Sci-fi-changin…

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Our Climate Justice + SF schedule is here! Saturday 14th Aug 13:50-18:00 BST Drop in online (email/dm for free zoom) with artists, organisers & scholars 🌱workshop presentations 🌱a guest roundtable ft. Blanca S. Villalobos, Idman Abdurahaman (Black Radical Ecology) & @Chrispak_

LSFRC_'s tweet image. Our Climate Justice + SF schedule is here!
Saturday 14th Aug 13:50-18:00 BST
Drop in online (email/dm for free zoom) with artists, organisers & scholars
🌱workshop presentations
🌱a guest roundtable ft. Blanca S. Villalobos, Idman Abdurahaman (Black Radical Ecology) & @Chrispak_

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